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if you encounter bug bites like this check out
Sandflies etc
Gross Alert.....
This past week
I was in Lansing while my hsb
was in training classes
we then went for a mini vacation
on Lake Erie
We had such a great time
until....
I saw these bumps
I don't know what these are
but I have at least 200
of them all over my feet
ankles, calves
thighs and back of my legs
Some have said chigger bites
(I don't have a clue never saw
chigger bites b/4)
maybe mosquito bites
(seems like I would've noticed
THAT many mosquitos)
flea bites
(haven't seen any fleas)
bed bugs
(didn't see any bedbugs on mattress)
I don't have a clue
but they are miserable
So right now
I will be
on and off
between
Benadryl fogs
ointment applications
If anyone has any ideas
on what it is
I'm open
to answers
if they are chiggers
I can expect to have them
for weeks
urggghhhhhh
FYI on chiggers
I believed they burrowed but 5 different sites
told me nope
FYI on chiggers
I believed they burrowed but 5 different sites
told me nope
Chiggers first show up as annoying red bumps.
An itch begins. It grows. More hard
red welts surface. From your feet
and ankles upward, and especially
at those tender locations your mother told
not to scratch in public, a maddening itch takes hold.
Savage scratching begins.
Every welt becomes a persistent,
exquisitely itching preoccupation that
continues to irritate for days and even weeks.
You probably recognize these symptoms
of chigger bites. Yet we never see the culprits
responsible for this summertime agony.
What are chiggers? Why do they bite us?
How can we stop that horrible itching?
Myths about chiggers are widespread.
Many believe chiggers are some type of bug.
Folklore tells us they burrow under our skin
and die, that they drink our blood and
that they can best be killed by
suffocation with nail polish or
bathing with bleach, alcohol,
turpentine or salt water.
Surprisingly, all these popular
facts are just plain wrong.
Chiggers are not bugs
or any other type of insect.
Chiggers are the juvenile (or larval)
form of a specific family of mites,
the Trombiculidae. Mites are arachnids
, like spiders and scorpions,
and are closely related to ticks.
On human hosts, however,
chiggers seldom get the chance
to finish a meal. The unlucky chigger that
depends on a human for its once-in-a-lifetime
dinner is almost sure to be accidentally
brushed away or scratched off by
the victim long before the meal is complete.
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chiggers seldom get the chance
to finish a meal. The unlucky chigger that
depends on a human for its once-in-a-lifetime
dinner is almost sure to be accidentally
brushed away or scratched off by
the victim long before the meal is complete.
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I have the bumps all over -
some under the spots on my flip flops.
They itch like mad What makes me lean that
way is that I noticed them
and it was awhile after that they started itching
- not right away like a mosquito bite
as time has gone it they have itched more
I think I got them when I was down
by the lake there was a wooded area
there No matter what kind
of bite it is the treatment is the same
benadryl and cortisone
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